Parallel Black 
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Generally I'm geared towards much bigger, grander stories so I'm not the best judge of quality when it comes to small scale ideas like this one. By the sounds of it it could easily be fun though.
As for examples...
Ex Story 1's theme is "togetherness". Down one idea route the characters come together to help each other out, thereby personifying the story's theme. Simple enough.
Another route would take this further, turning the slice of life story into a full-on drama, with the characters falling apart and going against the theme, suffering for it, and then getting over their differences to come back together. A sequence of events like this would work even better if the main villain ends up alone at the end, abandoned and betrayed by his/her fake friends to display the error of their ways.
Ex Story 2's theme is "wealth". Here, the main character starts out with everything one could ask for, only to lose it all and end up finding a different format of wealth - emotional instead of physical.
In both of these examples the theme of the story heavily influences what happens to the characters. The bad guy ends up alone as a representation of the end result of what would have happened if the main characters hadn't ended up back together. In example 1, going against the theme spells danger and misfortune, but a theme playing such a direct role in events is of course only one way of doing things.
Generally I'm geared towards much bigger, grander stories so I'm not the best judge of quality when it comes to small scale ideas like this one. By the sounds of it it could easily be fun though.
As for examples...
Ex Story 1's theme is "togetherness". Down one idea route the characters come together to help each other out, thereby personifying the story's theme. Simple enough.
Another route would take this further, turning the slice of life story into a full-on drama, with the characters falling apart and going against the theme, suffering for it, and then getting over their differences to come back together. A sequence of events like this would work even better if the main villain ends up alone at the end, abandoned and betrayed by his/her fake friends to display the error of their ways.
Ex Story 2's theme is "wealth". Here, the main character starts out with everything one could ask for, only to lose it all and end up finding a different form
In both of these examples the theme of the story heavily influences what happens to the characters. The bad guy ends up alone as a representation of the end result of what would have happened if the main characters hadn't ended up back together. In example 1, going against the theme spells danger and misfortune, but a theme playing such a direct role in events is of course only one way of doing things.